Counseling Final

Aftercare

those appropriate and helpful acts of counseling, personal, and/or written contact that came after the funeral.

Anomic Grief

grief where mourning customs are unclear due to an inappropriate death and the absence of prior bereavement expertience.

Anticipatory grief

grief in anticipation of death or loss

At need counseling

funeral practitioner consulting with the family from the time the death occurs until the final disposition.

Attachemnt theory

the model describing a tendency to make strong affectional bonds with others coming from the need for security and safety

Bereavement

the act or event of seperation or loss that results in the experience of grief.

Chronic grief

grief that is excessive in duration and has not come to a satisfactory resolution.

coping

Ways of responding to stress.

counseling

guidance to the individeual by utilizing psychological methods.

crisis counseling

a type of intervention that helps individuals in a crisis situation.

delayed grief

inhibited, suppressed or postponed response to a loss.

directive counseling

a type of counseling in which the counselor assumes the initiative and carries a major role in the identification and resolution of problems.

disenfranchised grief

giref experienced due to a loss that society fails to recognize or deems unworthy of mourning; grief that cannotbe openly acknowledged, socially sanctioned, and publicly shared.

exaggerated grief

reactions that are excessive and disabling

grief

an emtion or set of emotions due to loss

death anxiety

a learned emotional response to death-related phenomenon which is characterized by extreme apprehension.

defense mechanism

an often unconcious mental rpocess used to reduce anxiety.

denial

the defense mechanism by whcih a person is unable or refuses to see things as they are becasue such facts are threatening to the self

directive counseling

a type of counseling in which the counselor assumes the initiative and carries a major role in the identification and resolution of problems

displacement

redirecting feelings toward a person or object other than one who caused the feelings originally.

emotions

feelings created by brain patterns accompanied by bodily changes

emotional intelligence

the ability to perceive, use, understand, and managae emotions.

empathy

the ability to understand what another is feeling.

exaggerated grief

reactions that are excessive and disabling

rationalization

supplying a logical, acceptable reason rather than the real reason for an action.

repression

unconscious process by which memories, thoughts, or impulses are held out of awareness

respect

the act of giving particualr attention and high regard; a feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or acheivements

shame

blame that is perceived to be directed toward one’s self by others.

stressor

any situation capable of producing physical or emotional stress

sublimation

redirection of emotional energy or unacceptable impulses to culturally or socially useful purposes.

sids

the sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant, which remains unexplained after a complete autopsy and a review of the circumstances around the death.

suicide

a deliberate and voluntary act of taking one’s own life.

sympathy

expressing sincere feelings for a person who has experienced a loss.

verbal communication

spoken, oral communication

grief syndrome

a set of symptoms associated with loss.

grief work

a set of basic tasks that must be completed for successful mourning to take place

informational counseling

sharing special knowledge

masked grief

grief in which symptoms and behaviors cause diffculty but are not attributed to the loss

nondirective counseling

to listen, uspport and advice without offering a course of action

nonverbal communication

that which is expressed by psoture, facial expression, actions, and/or physical behavior, etc.

John bowlby

made attachment theorty

engel

state that mourning is similar to the process of healing

erich lindemann

characteristics of normal or acute grief

normal grief characteristics

somaric or bodily distress of some type, preoccupation with the image of the deceasded, guild realted to the deceased or cicrumstances of the death hostile reastions, the inability to function as one had before the loss